The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-08-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Prof. o. S. Fowler, the noted phreno
n ogist and lecturer, died at his residsne
7 near Sharon Station, Conn.,, Thursda
morning.
E tits reported that an English compan
J. has recently been organized in London
buy the famous Beal del Monte mine!
: celebrated in the history Of Mexican mir
!, ing. The price to be paid is stated to b
from $4,000, 900 to $5,000,OO0.
A passenger train on the Baltimore
Ohio road was derailed by a displace
switch after entering the yards at Wash
ington, D. c., Wednesday, killing the en-
gineer, two passengers and injuring te
others. The entire train was badl
wrecked
A movement is on foot among promi
nent members of the Grand Army il
Missouri and several other western state
to make General D. r. Frier, of st. Louis
chairman of the executive local commit
tee, commander-:n chief of the order fo
the ensuing year.
The firm of Henry Ives s. Co. has no.
tilted the stock exchange OF its suspen
sion. There was intense excitement or
the board as soon as the announcement
was received Mr.. Cromwell, of Sullivan
& Cromwell, has been made assignee
The liabilities are estimated at SEC,
900, with assets slightly in excess of that
amount.
Oscar B. Selden, prominent person of
Manville, Wyoming, was shot and killed
by an unknown assailant Monday evening
Selden was working in his Office when
the shot was fired through the window
with deadly effect. The village was
aroused and citizens fastened to the spot,
too late, however, to be of aid to the vic
tim or to capture the murderer.
Aaron A. Sargent, ex- United States SEN
ator for California, died at San Francisco
last Sunday morning. He had been alling
for some time, but was confined to his
house only for the past two weeks. The
disease was enlargement of the spleen,
resulting in blood poisoning. After his
last return he engaged in the law prac-
tice, establishing the firm Of Sargent &
Stone.
A Was hington special says as the state
ment in detail of the affairs of the Pacific
railroads is being prepared by Major
Redd,ngton, the expert employed by the
department of justice VIVA view Of the
prosecution of the directors of these
companies, it is asserted that the gov
ernment and the roads have been plum
dered by the directors out of about $751;
600, 900.
A diabolical attempt was made We'd
nesday night to wreck the outgoing pass
cnger train on the Ohio s. Mississippi, in
the outskirts of ST. Louis, by driving two
coupling pins IN frog. An officer walk
ing through the yard just before the train
was due discovered and removed the OBJ
struction. The track at this point is on a
high embankment and much loss of life
would have followed wreck
The president expects to leave WASH
ington on his western tour about the last
week in September and will go directly
to St. Louis, probably by way of Indian
apolis. He will spend two days there
and go directly to Chicago, Milwaukee,
Madison, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha,
Kansas City, Memphis, Nashville and
Atlanta, reaching the latter place in time
to meet his engagement for October 18.
A fendish attempt at train wrecking
on the Burlington s. Missouri road at
place ten miles from Nebraska City, Neb.,
was enacted last Saturday night. AS a
passenger train was crossing trestle
bridge across deep ravine the wood
work was discovered on fire. An in
vestigation disclosed the fact that the
strlngers and braces were entirely con-
sumed, and the bridge in a shaky condi-
ton. The fact that the train was an un-
usually light one prevented fearful ca
tastrophe. Detectives are working up
the matter.
At Cullom, ILL.,, Prof. Tolbert, the bal
loonist, made an ascension Saturday af
ternoon. The balloon arose about 1000
feet in the air and sailed away in
northwesterly direction. Soon after start
ing the balloon was discovered to be on
fire, smoke rolling from the top in clouds.
BY this time it had sailed about one mile
away, and then began to come down very
rapidly, and struck the ground with
crash. Prof. Tolbert escaped severe in
jury only by good luck. About all that
was left of the balloon was the wings on
the bottom. The excitement of the peo-
pie was intense.
The coroner's jury impanelled to IN
quire into the Chatsworth railway horror
agreed on verdict regarding this big
wreck which holds Timothy (,onnhlin